Disputed Boundaries (Stories from the San Juan Islands): Stories from the San Juan Islands

By Regina Kammer

A British soldier and an American adventurer test the borders of desire.

 

San Juan Island, 1869

 

An international border dispute with no battles or skirmishes? The occupation of San Juan Island was proving to be Lieutenant Braxton Thorne's most uneventful assignment as a Royal Marine. Which meant plenty of time to fool around with his fiancée Tilda.

 

American adventurer Gideon Roberts was just passing through San Juan Island on his way to his next job – and his next guy. He could stay, work on a farm, but why? A free spirit craved new experiences, new places, new men.

 

A chance encounter unleashes unfamiliar desires. Braxton has never been with a man. Gideon has never wanted to be with just one man. Now they find themselves in a war over the boundaries of their hearts.

 

Disputed Boundaries is a male-male, enemies to lovers historical romance. The story is set during the Pig War — the final conflict between the United States and Great Britain, a bloodless standoff over the boundary between Washington Territory and British Columbia. The novelette is part of Regina Kammer's Stories from the San Juan Islands collection of standalone short reads set in the San Juan Islands.

 

Stories from the San Juan Islands
* Undamaged ~ A contemporary firefighter romance set on San Juan Island
* Disputed Boundaries ~ A historical romance set on San Juan Island in 1869 during the Pig War
* "Orcas" ~ A contemporary women's fiction short story set on Orcas Island

All three stories are also available in one volume: The Stories from the San Juan Islands Collection

• Language: English
• Publisher: Viridium Press
• Release date: Jan 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9780997889345

Regina Kammer

Regina Kammer is a librarian, an art historian, and an award-winning, international best-selling, multi-published writer of provocative historical romance and contemporary romance with a touch of history. Her short stories and novels make history sexier, whether the era is Roman, Byzantine, Viking, American Revolution, or Victorian. She’s even sexed up contemporary settings, Steampunk, and Greco-Roman mythology. She has been published by Cleis Press, Go Deeper Press, Ellora’s Cave, House of Erotica, Story Ink, Loose Id, The Naughty Literati, and her own imprint, Viridium Press. She began writing historical fiction with romantic elements during National Novel Writing Month 2006, switching to erotica when all her characters suddenly demanded to have sex.Keep up with Regina via her newsletter: https://reginakammer.com/newsletter/

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Disputed Boundaries

Stories from the San Juan Islands

Regina Kammer

Viridium Press

Copyright

Disputed Boundaries is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright ©2016, minor revisions ©2020 by Regina Kammer

Disputed Boundaries was previously published in Naughty Flames: Eleven Fiery Romances in 2016, and Naughty Spice: Naughty is the New Nice! in 2018.

Cover design by Dar Albert of Wicked Smart Designs.

Cover photographic elements of San Juan Island including image of English Camp by Regina Kammer.

All Rights Reserved. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

The author, Regina Kammer, prohibits any use of this work in any manner for the purposes of training artificial intelligence technologies to generate text or speech, including without limitation, technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as this work, without Regina Kammer’s specific and express permission to do so.

Published by Regina Kammer and Viridium Press, Friday Harbor, Washington

ISBN-13: (ebook) 978-0-9978893-4-5

ISBN-10: (ebook) 0-9978893-4-9

The Stories from the San Juan Islands by Regina Kammer

Undamaged

A contemporary, seasoned m/f firefighter romance set on San Juan Island

Disputed Boundaries

A historical m/m romance set on San Juan Island in 1869 during the Pig War

Orcas

A first-person contemporary women’s fiction short story set on Orcas Island

The Stories from the San Juan Islands Collection

All three stories in one book

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Disputed Boundaries

A British soldier and an American adventurer test the borders of desire.

San Juan Island, 1869

An international border dispute with no battles or skirmishes? The occupation of San Juan Island was proving to be Lieutenant Braxton Thorne’s most uneventful assignment as a Royal Marine. Which meant plenty of time to fool around with his fiancée Tilda.

American adventurer Gideon Roberts was just passing through San Juan Island on his way to his next job – and his next guy. He could stay, work on a farm, but why? A free spirit craved new experiences, new places, new men.

A chance encounter unleashes unfamiliar desires. Braxton has never been with a man. Gideon has never wanted to be with just one man. Now they find themselves in a war over the boundaries of their hearts.

Disputed Boundaries is set during the Pig War—the final conflict between the United States and Great Britain, a bloodless standoff over the boundary between Washington Territory and British Columbia.

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Chapter One: Braxton

Royal Marine garrison, San Juan Island, 1 December 1869

There is an aching in my heart which I barely understand. An emptiness, a void made more bleak by winter’s burgeoning desolation.

It began when Gideon left.

A man…

Yes, there have been times when a man has incited a spark of passion within. Always have I buried that desire, restraining the dangerous notion to act upon it. To do so is essential. Society finds love between two men aberrant. And abhorrent.

But Gideon has affected me